Monody on the Death of Chatterton

Versions of
Monody on the Death of Chatterton
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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"Monody on the Death of Chatterton" was composed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1790 and was rewritten throughout his lifetime. The poem deals with the idea of Thomas Chatterton, a poet who committed suicide, as representing the poetic struggle. Warning: template has been deprecated.

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Versions of Monody on the Death of Chatterton include:

Monody on the Death of Chatterton (1790) (first version)
Monody on the Death of Chatterton (1794) (second version) in Preface to Poems supposed to have been written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley and Others, in the Fifteenth Century
Monody on the Death of Chatterton (1796) (third version) in Poems on Various Subjects (1796)
Monody on the Death of Chatterton (1829) (sixth version) in Sibylline Leaves (1829)
Monody on the Death of Chatterton (1834) (final version)